TV actress Lara Pulver

Events in 1980 and 1-9

Events in the world in the birth year of Lara Pulver

• Six US embassy aides escape from Iran with Canadian help (Jan. 29). Background: Iran Hostage Crisis
• US breaks diplomatic ties with Iran (April 7).
• Eight US servicemen are killed and five are injured as helicopter and cargo plane collide in abortive desert raid to rescue American hostages in Teheran (April 25). Background: Iran Hostage Crisis
• Anastasio Somoza Debayle, ousted Nicaraguan ruler, and two aides are assassinated in Paraguayan capital of Asunción (Sept. 17).
• Iraqi troops hold 90 square miles of Iran after invasion; 8-year Iran-Iraq War begins (Sept. 19).
• Three US nuns and a lay worker are found shot in El Salvador (Dec. 4).

Birthday Lara Pulver (1-9) in history

• Day 1-9 year 1807: Former U.S. vice president Aaron Burr was found innocent of treason.
• Day 1-9 year 1923: A devastating earthquake struck the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Yokohama. Nearly 150,000 people were killed and more than two million left homeless.
• Day 1-9 year 1939: World War II began when Nazi Germany invaded Poland.
• Day 1-9 year 1969: A coup in Libya toppled the monarchy of King Idris and brought Muammar al-Qaddafi to power.
• Day 1-9 year 1983: A Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 was shot down by a Soviet jet fighter, killing all 269 people aboard.
• Day 1-9 year 1985: A joint U. S.-French expedition located the wreck of the Titanic 560 miles off the coast of Newfoundland.
• Day 1-9 year 2004: Chechen terrorists took about 1,200 schoolchildren and others hostage in Beslan, Russia. Commandos stormed the school on Sept. 3.